Cops: Long Pond man stole firearms, threatened to kill police, woman

A Tunkhannock Township man is accused of stealing a large cache of weapons Sunday morning and keeping a loaded handgun under his pillow when police arrested him.

Pocono Mountain Regional Police were dispatched to a home in Long Pond at 7:08 a.m. after a woman told them that Anthony T. Brown, 37, was sleeping with a loaded pistol under his pillow and allegedly threatened to kill the woman and any officers that came to the house.

Officers surrounded the house and Brown was taken into custody without incident.According to police, Brown had broken into a house a short distance away and stole firearms and ammunition.